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Helmsley Folk Weekend

Jez Lowe & The Big Bad Pennies

JEZ LOWE & THE BIG PAD PENNIES/ STEVE GARDHAM
North-East based folk singer songwriter Jez Lowe (BBC Folksinger of the Year Nominee 2008) marks TWENTY years of The Bad Pennies in 2010 by inviting Canadian percussionist Mattie Foulds (Shooglenifty/ Karine Polwart Band) to augment the already multi-talented line-up of Kate Bramley, Andy May (Baltic Crossing) and David De la Haye (Monster Ceilidh Band) for selected UK festival and theatre dates as THE BIG BAD PENNIES. This new line-up uses Jez Lowe's award-winning songs as a landscape to experiment instrumentally with fiddle, Northumbrian Pipes, fretless-bass and percussion with most exciting results! Bigger, badder and even better!
Jez Lowe is the Indie Acoustic USA Winner of Album of the Year 2009 for ‘Northern Echoes’, his most recent CD and DVD album set featuring the Bad Pennies. His song-writing was described this year as ’gloriously witty’ by the UK’s Guardian newspaper, with the Bad Pennies picking up their own accolades from the UK’s Daily Telegraph as ‘one of the hottest acts around’. www.jezlowe.com

Steve Gardham is one of Yorkshires most highly respected folk performers and collectors, with a huge repertoire of traditional folk songs and tunes including maritime and sea-songs, as well as some of his own story songs in the same style. He is also one of the founder members of the Yorkshire Garland group that have worked tirelessly to preserve traditional Yorkshire songs and make them available to schools groups and the general public.


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